Australia’s favourite and busiest Director Simon Phillips to direct Twelfth Night in MTC’s 2018 season. Simon is currently in NY directing Love Never Dies for Andrew Lloyd Weber’s American tour. John Frost co producer of Dream Lover the Bobby Darin musical engaged Simon to bring his vast and successful experience and creativity to Dream Lover which will open at the State Theatre Melbourne later this year.
Melbourne Theatre Company
Rounding out the season is a new production of Twelfth Night, directed by MTC’s former artistic director, Simon Phillips. The cast of Shakespeare’s beloved comedy will include Brent Hill, Richard Piper, Christie Whelan Browne, Frank Woodley and Geoffrey Rush. Rush, who will star as Malvolio, and Phillips have worked together before – including on MTC’s 2011 production of The Importance of Being Earnest, in which Rush played Lady Bracknell in Phillips’s final season as director of the company.
